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Volume 01 Issue 09 October 2009
The iPhone will finally support multitasking for third-party apps as part of Apple's iPhone OS 4.0 release, according to AppleInsidier sources..
Hewlett-Packard has begun a marketing campaign against the iPad and for its Slate tablet PC, highlighting the fact its tablet runs Adobe and AIR software and the iPad doesn't...
Open-source software is one of the great success stories of the past few decades. The Apache HTTP Server is the world's most popular Web server, Linux has more than held its own against Unix and other proprietary operating systems, and Mozilla's Firefox browser has given Microsoft's Internet Explorer strong competition over the years....
With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant IE is looking less and less relevant every day. MS will demonstrate the first beta builds of Internet Explorer 9 and possibly offer a preview release of the browser to developers....
Researchers at the University of Oviedo in Spain have estimated that the cost of replicating the development embodied in the Linux kernel at over 1bn. According to their calculations, it would take almost 1,000 developers approximately 14 years to recreate the open source operating system...
Google continues to feather its growing nest of Web-based tools with today's purchase of a photo utility that lets users edit digital photos in a Web browser. What plans does Google have for Picnik?....
Mozilla, faced with new competitive pressures, has begun work on three separate, significant changes to Firefox.First is a new JavaScript engine that should run Web-based programs at least 30 percent faster. Second is a new graphics engine for Windows that will take advantage of hardware acceleration for graphics and text. And third ...
"Manthan" was awarded to ViduSuwa because the project is based on the concept of a patient centric approach in utilizing ICT and providing a working model developed solely by Sri Lankan professionals in the IT and health sectors to empower the rural population of Sri Lanka....
Facebook's virtual currency, "Facebook Credits," is getting very close to its full launch: a post on the Facebook developer blog explains some of the full terms of the system and what developers can expect as the currency continues to roll out slowly.
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Symposium on localized systems and applications The very first symposium on localized systems and applications was held at the University of Moratuwa on the 2nd September 2009. It was organized by LakApps (http://www.lakapps.lk). The event was well organized with the presentation of over 20 personalities involved in localization of systems and applications. |
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A new device introduced at book fair 2009 In addition to the books on display, one stall was of particular interest to the large crowds that came for the exhibition. It was to see the first Multi Touch table being displayed for the first time and for Sri Lankans to have a first experience of using a Multi Touch surface computer. |
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Shell Scripting සිංහලෙන් ලින්ක්ස් පාරිසරිකය තුළ දී Shell Script සකස් කරගන්නා ආකාරය පිළිබඳ මෙම ලිපි පෙළින් ඉදිරිපත් කෙරේ’ මේ සඳහා ඔබ ලින්ක්ස් විධාන පෙළ අතුරුමුහුණත (Command line interface - terminal) භාවිත කිරීම පිළිබඳ යම් අත්දැකීමක් ලබාතිබීම ප්රමාණවත් වේ. |
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C++ with Barney! Barney: Okay, good. Then we will see how to use loops today. Computers become really useful when we want to repeat things over and over again. We will have to repeat certain instructions ten or fifteen times, and sometimes a million times, and even infinitely. |
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Joomla SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is a great way to make our web “read” by the search engine. Many web owners hire SEO professional to optimize their web. But for the Joomla 1.5 users, they should be happy because of this version, Joomla had improved better features for SEO. |
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Fun with FOSS A Linuxdistribution is a member of the family of Unix-like software distributions built on top of the Linux kernel. Such distros (distributions) consist of a large collection of software applications |
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